Midwest Chapter of Mil-OSS hosting Student Hackathon in St. Louis, Missouri February 21-22 for high-school and college students. Prizes will be awarded within within each age group. Registration closes on February 13th.

The public-private Open Source Unmanned Remote and Autonomous Vehicle Systems (OS-URAVS) program kicks at Camp Shelby with the aim of boosting innovation and cutting costs of the government’s fleet of UAVs to compete in an industry worth $8.1 billion

Shortly after Northrop Grumman got approval to begin building a new breed of mobile radar systems the Marine Corps asked the defense contractor to change the operating system to Linux for greater future compatibility

The Pentagon’s Mad Science Is Going Open Source. DARPA published a list of all the Open Source computer science projcets it has funded with links to source code and academic papers detailing underlying concepts.

The fact that the Navy turned to a Linux-based IT infrastructure USS Zumwalt proves that the Navy believes Linux is Mission-Ready. Utilizing off-the-shelf hardware & software are a smart approach for the new ship.

Mil-OSS Steering Committee member elected to co-Chair Open Source for America, an associate organization of Mil-OSS focused on promoting the use of open source technologies in the U.S. federal government.

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